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Connor Gilroy
Employment
University of Washington
N/A
Seattle, WA
present - 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Instructor: Taught sections and courses including sociological theory, data and society (undergraduate), social statistics, data science and population processes, Bayesian statistics for the social sciences (graduate) | R, Stata, Stan
Graduate Research Assistant: Analyzed Twitter networks of US homeless care organizations, built a web crawler and a PostgreSQL database to scrape and store text data from nonprofit and government webpages (with Zack Almquist); built an agent-based network model of public opinion change (with Katherine Stovel) | R, Python, SQL, NetLogo
Meta
N/A
Seattle, WA
summer 2022, 2021, 2020
Data Science Intern (2022): Analyzed feed engagement with reshared Groups content, built a data pipeline to create a new experimental metric, and reanalyzed a collection of experiments to quantify tradeoffs between types of content | R, Python, SQL
User Experience Research Intern (2021, 2020): Designed, fielded, and analyzed a complex survey of job seeker needs and satisfaction (2021); designed and conducted quantitative studies (behavioral log data analysis + survey) of factors driving initial participation in new communities (2020) | R, Python, SQL
The World Bank Group
N/A
Washington, DC
2020
Consultant, Survey Data Analysis: Created statistical models and data visualizations of gender-based individual and household disparities in Central Asia | R
Epic Systems Corporation
N/A
Verona, WI
2015 - 2013
Quality Assurance: Automated and manual software testing for web APIs and enterprise healthcare software | C#, Python, Excel
Education
PhD, Sociology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
expected 2023
Dissertation: “Expressions of Community: Understanding Variations in Community through LGBTQ Experiences.”
MA, Sociology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
2018
Thesis: “How Distinct is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories.” Distinguished Thesis Award in Social Sciences, 2019. Joined webscraped and geocoded gay bar data with Census data to statistically compare trajectories of change in gayborhoods to matched neighborhoods.
BA, Biology and Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
2013